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Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly is pleased to announce the appointment of Jermaine Freeman to Chief of Staff. Freeman, formerly the mayor’s Senior Advisor for Economic Development and a leader within the administration since its beginning, has been serving as interim Chief of Staff since May of 2023.
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly is thrilled to announce that the City of Chattanooga has earned a $500,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Corridor ID Program to fund a comprehensive study to develop the scope, the cost, engineering, and other requirements needed to establish new passenger rail service on existing alignments along the Atlanta-Chattanooga-Nashville-Memphis Corridor.
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and the city’s Neighborhood Services encourages all Neighborhood Association members to attend a data-focused roundtable event on Monday, November 20th from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM at the Avondale Community Center, located at 1305 Dodson Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37406. The event is part of the Kelly Administration’s 2023 Neighborhood Roundtable Series and promises to be an invaluable opportunity for community leaders to harness the transformative power of data.
Mayor Tim Kelly and City leaders announced today their decision to pause pursuit of approval from the Regional Planning Agency (RPA) of a change of use application for the 12th St. CARTA building, which the City is exploring as a potential site for an emergency shelter. The City will continue community conversations with members of the MLK Neighborhood and stakeholders, and it chose to defer to demonstrate its commitment to due diligence. The City’s application will not be on the agenda for the November 13,2023 RPA Commission meeting.
The City of Chattanooga on Tuesday offered and sold $42,485,000 in General Obligation Bonds to the competitive bond market. The City received 16 competitive bids to purchase the City’s bonds with UBS Financial Services Inc. submitting the winning bid at a true interest cost of 4.20% – an interest rate well below the current prime rate (8.5%) and the federal funds rate (5.5%), a nod to the prevailing robust economic conditions in Chattanooga.